POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT: OLD-AGE PENSIONS DIVISION (TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE), FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1910.

Appendix to the Journals of the House of Representatives, 1910 Session I, F-09

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1910. NEW ZEALAND.

POST AND TELEGRAPH DEPARTMENT: OLD-AGE PENSIONS DIVISION (TWELFTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE), FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31st MARCH, 1910.

Presented to both Houses of the General Assembly pursuant to Section 69 of the Old-age Pensions Act, 1908.

The Commissioner of Old-age Pensions to the Right Hon. the Minister of Finance. Sir,— Old-age Pensions Office, Wellington, 31st May, 1910. I have the honour to submit herewith my report relating to old-age pensions for the year ended the 31st March last. The amalgamation of the Old-age Pensions Office with the Post and Telegraph Department took place, in accordance with your instructions, on the Ist May, 1909. Of the fourteen officers then occupied in the Old-age Pensions Office it was found that the services of seven were no longer needed. Savings were also effected in the working of Ihe district offices. The total saving amounts to £5,744 per annum. The administrative office of the Old-age Pensions is now attached to the General Post Office. The transfer of the extensive records of the Old-age Pensions Office to the General Post Office occasioned no inconvenience to pensioners. During the past year the new arrangements have worked smoothly and well. Every advantage has been taken of the amalgamation to utilise postal officers for duties formerly performed by Registrars only, and thus to study the convenience of the old people in every way possililr. As time goes on and further necessity arises no effort will be spared to further the success of the Act, and, while strictly observing the conditions laid down by law, give every assistance to both claimants and pensioners. It was soon evident that further amendments were necessary to the Act, especially to meet the urgent and reasonable demand that those in possession of a home should not be too severely penalised thereby. An amending Act passed both Houses of the Legislature, receiving the Governor's assent on the 24th December, 1909. Its provisions embody a new departure in arriving at the eligibility of applicants for the pension, inasmuch as an endeavour has been made therein to establish an equality in regard to the deductions made on account of income and property. The basis of this co-ordination as between income and property is the fact that, at age 65, the approximate sum required to purchase from any life assurance company an annuity for life equal to the maximum amount of income—namely, £34 — that admits of the payment of a full pension, is £340. £340, therefore, lias been fixed as the maximum amount of property that will not debar an applicant, under certain conditions, from qualifying for the full amount payable under the Act. Under previous Acts the maximum amount of property that admitted of the payment of the full pension was £150. If the £340 represents the value of a home, including furniture or personal effects, and the applicant is without income, the full amount is payable without restriction. If, however, the £340 consists of cash or other form of property, its conversion into a home of equal or less value is necessary to enable an applicant without income to qualify for the full benefits under the Act. Moreover, if the £340, being cash, is invested in an annuity with any life assurance company, the pension payable is regulated by the amount of the annuity, which in turn is dependent upon the age of the applicant at the date of investment. When the property does not constitute a home, or furniture or personal effects, the old order of applying it in reduction of the pension at the rate of £1 for every £10 in the capital value obtains, the former allowances other than encumbrances being done away with. It was inevitable, with the inauguration of a scheme such as this, which has removed so many of the anomalies created by previous enactments, that there should be individual cases among the existing pensioners of apparent hardship, particularly among the owners of small sums of money ; but to these

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the Act, as now framed, actually offers advantages by reason of the provisions exempting on the property side any sum invested in the manner hereinbefore described. There are already on record cases where the owners of cash, whose pensions would otherwise Lave been subject to reduction, have qualified for the full pension in this way. Other features of the Act under review V av De mentioned—namely, the provision enabling the owner of a home of any value to transfer the said property to the Public Trustee in return for a full pension and the further condition, contingent thereon, giving the next-of-kin the right to redeem the property at death by payment of the sum that would otherwise not have been payable but for the transfer. The law previously limited the value of the home transferable, and made it incumbent on the Public Trustee to sell the property at death. The total cost of the additional pensions under the amending Act is estimated at £15,000 pei annum. Consequent on the amendments to the Act in recent years, and also on the change in the administration, which latter has enabled a wider use to be made of the Postal service for the convenience of pensioners, it has been found necessary to bring the regulations under the Acts up to date. These were signed by the Governor on the 24th January last, and, in accordance with the law, will be laid upon the table of the House. Pensions in Force. As is to be expected, the number of pensioners continues to increase, there being on the roll on the 31st March a total of ] 5,320, including 694 members of the Native race. The increase on the figures of the previous year is 924, thus : — European. Maori. Total. New pensions granted .. .. .. .. 2,214 90 2,304 Deduct deaths .. .. .. .. .. 1,094 75 Deduct cancellations .. .. .. .. 200 11 1,380 Increase .. .. .. .. .. .. 924 Tn addition to this pronounced increase in the actual numbers, I have also to report a further increase in the percentage of pensioners to the population eligible by age and residence, which now stands at 36 per cent. In 1901 this percentage was 42 per cent. ; in 1906 it had dropped to 31 per cent., since which year it has been gradually rising as indicated hereunder : — On 81st March, pSneTs. 1906 ... ... ... (Actual)* 37,367 11,915 31 1907 ... ... ... (Estimated) 38,611 12,597 32 1908 „ 39,336 12,912 32 1909 ... ... ... „ 40,176 13,705 34 1910 ... ... ... „ 40,238 14,626 36 * Bee " Census Report," 190G, page 37. The percentage of pensioners to the population eligible by age only is 32 per cent. Last year it was 30 per cent. Two reasons can be ascribed for this upward tendency —namely, the widening of the scope of the Act by the amendments of 1908 and 1909, and the very evident desire of the aged community to avail themselves of the benefits of the Act at the earliest possible opportunity. There is no doubt that the financial stringency during last winter assisted in swelling the ranks of the pensioners ; but a marked feature of the transactions right through the year has been the number of successful applicants who had just reached the pension-age, or had just completed the necessary period of residence. With the present indications of the effect of the 1909 Act. which had been only three months in operation at the close of the year, there is every reason to anticipate that this percentage will lie further increased during the current year. Of the total number of pensioners, 11,827 aTe in receipt of the full pension of £26. This represents 77 per cent, of the whole, as against 78 per cent, in the previous year. Of the 7,487 pensioners admittedfin the first three months of the Act eleven years ago, 1,912 are still on the roll. The European pensioners of the age of ninety and over number 105. Eight are of the age of ninetyfive and over, and one is over one hundred. Further details regarding the ages of pensioners and of their distribution throughout the Dominion appear in the appendix of this report (Tables 4 and 7). New Claims. The number of olaims lodged during the year totalled '2,892, an increase of 58 on the figures of the previous year. These, with (lie 865 awaiting investigation at the seventy-three agencies of the office on the 31st March, 1909, made a total of 3,757 dealt with. These are accounted for as follows :— (Wanted . . . . .. .. .. .. . . .. 2,304 Rejected (including withdrawals, deaths, &c.) .. .. .. .. 677 Awaiting investigation on the 31st March, 1910 .. .. .. 776 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 3,757

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The total claims lodged since the Act came into operation now number 39,316. Of these, 30,034 have'jbeen granted, and 51 .per cent, of the latter are still in force. It may be noted that, whereas the number of claims lodged during the'year totalled 2,892. the. European population who became eligible by age and residence during the year, being those who were sixty-one years of age and resident twenty-one years in' April, r *1906, as shown by the Registrar-General's report the census of that year already quoted, only numbered 2,886. It is not intended that this should indicate that the whole of tlio latter have found it necessary to apply for the pension, for the new applicants in each year must, and do always, include a considerable number of people who were eligiblejby age and residence in previous years ; but it will, however, serve to show the tendency there is (already referred to) to make early application for participation in the scheme. The usual assistance has been rendered to applicants in securing the necessary evidence of age. Of the total number of applicants during the year — i.e., 2,892 —no less than 874 were unable to prove their ages ; and, as a result of the inquiries made by Head Office in these cases, 517 were enabled to get their pensions, while 142 were found to be short of the pension-age. In 146 cases no evidence could be traced, and in the remaining 69 replies from outside the Dominion are still awaited. The new pensioners include 90 members of the Native race. Of the remainder, 2,109 are of British extraction, including 66 whites born in New Zealand. Further particulars regarding the claims made and the new pensions granted appear in the appendix (Tables 4, 5, and 6). Annual Payments. The «ross payments made on account of pensions during the year totalled £362,495 11s., being £25,735 14s. 10d. in excess of the payments of the previous year. After making allowance for payments not passed through the accounts on account of some informality, and also for refunds of pensions overpaid, the net charge against the Consolidated Fund was £362,195 165., to which has been applied a credit of £20,142 12s. 7d., being revenue from the endowment lands. The net increase in the cost for the year accordingly stands at £5,521 Is. 10d. The total now paid since the Act came into operation has reached the sum of £2,767,011. The distribution of the year's payments in the various parts of the Dominion is indicated by the following table : — Postal District. Number. Amount. I 8. cl. Auckland .. .. .. .. .. 36,982 75,116 2 2 Thames .. .. .. .. .. 6,503 13,565 LO L 0 Giebome .. .. .. .. .. 1,369 2.587 2 I Napier .. .. .. .. .. (i,4 71 13,038 1 6 New Plymouth .. .. .. .. 3,091 6,260 11 7 Wanganui .. .. .. .. .. 5,324 11,091 1 2 Wellington .. .. .. .. 17,831 36,107 8 I Nelson .. .. .. .. .. 3,636 7,359 7 1 Blenheim .. .. .. .. .. 2,007 1,126 1 0 ChristchuTch .. .. .. .. 29,468 00,183 13 7 Timaru .. .. .. .. .. 6,783 13,574 Oil Greyniouth .. .. .. .. 6,290 1:..2115 H) 0 Hokitika .. .. .. .. .. 6,432 13,591 9 1(1 Westport .. .. .. .. .. 3,439 7.267 2 X Oamaru .. .. .. .. .. 3,747 7,640 18 8 Dunedin .. .. .. .. .. 27,304 54,653 :S 7 FnvercarKill .. .. .. .. 11,162 23,038 5 9 177,839 362,495 11 (I The following table shows the gross amount paid since the Ad came into force, together with bhe coxi per head of the population (exclusive of Maoris) in eaoh year : Gross Payments Population Cost per on Account of at End of Head of Pensions. Year. Population. £ s. d. Three months ended 31st March, 1899 (at £18) 3,124 746,676 0 1 Year ended 31st March, 1900 (at £18) ... 157,342 758,617 I I 1901 „ ... 197,292 772,719 5 I 1902 „ ... 207,468 789,994 5 3 1903 „ ... 210,140 814,842 -j -j 1904 „ ... 203,164 838,954 4 10 1905 „ ... 195,475 864,971 1 6 1906 (at £18 and £26)... 254,367 889,968 5 8 1907 (at £26) ... 314,184 913,873 6 10 1908 „ ... 325,199 937,587 6 11 1909 „ ... 336,760 968,313 6 11 1910 „ ... 362,496 987,480 7 4* Total ... ... ... £2,767,011 • Reduced to Us. lid. if the net payments arcs taken.

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Recoveries. Overpaid pensions refunded and paid to the credit of the Public Account during the year totalled £319 11s. 9d. The total sum overpaid and refunded since the Act came into operation now stands at £6,606 6s. 4d. of Administration. The'cost of administration dining the year was £3,290 2s. 3d., made up as follows : — £ s. d. Salaries .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 2,702 13 4 Lodging-allowances .. .. .. .. .. .. 72 s 0 0 Non-permanent Postmasters, for paying pensions .. .. .. 293 3 9 Fees for certificates of age .. . . .. .. .. 18 16 6 Interpreters' fees .. .. .. .. .. .. 11 16 6 Travelling-expenses .. .. .. .. .. .. 44 5 3 Miscellaneous.. .. .. .. .. .. .. 147 6 11 3,290 2 3 P< 11; FEITED INSTALM BOTH. The instalments due last year and remaining unpaid on the 31st March amounted to £1,088 3s. 6d. £938 10s. 2d. of this amount represents absolutely forfeited instalments on which there is no further claim, the balance being instalments the payment of which is in abeyance. The absolutely forfeited instalments in each month are, — laflQ Absolutely Forfeited lyuy ' Instalments. 1 s. d. April .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 129 1 8 May .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 116 18 4 June .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 79 5 0 July .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 66 13 4 August .. .. .. .. .. .. 88 8 4 September .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 105 11 8 October .. .. .. .. .. .. 57 4 8 November .. .. .. .. .. .. 84 7 11 December .. .. .. .. .. .. 64 8 4 1910. January .. .. .. .. .. .. 74 0 11 February .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 40 16 10 March .. .. .. .. .. .. .. 31 13 2 Total .. .. .. .. .. .. .. £938 10 2 Homes and Hospitals. The amount paid to the controlling bodies of the various homes and hospitals in New Zealand during the past year totalled £19,949 Bs. 10d., the number of pensioners being maintained therein on the 31st March being 793. Full details in regard to these payments, which do not carry a Government subsidy, are set out in the appendix (Table 9). The decrease in the annual expenditure on outdoor relief since the Old-age Pensions Act came into force in 1898 is indicated by the following table :— Annual Cost Cost per European of Head oi Year ended Population. Outdoor Relief. Population. £ s. d. 31st March, 1899 ... ... ... 746,676 50,850 1 4J 1900 ... ... ... 758,617 41,790 1 l| 1901 ... ... ... 772,719 42,181 1 1 1902 ... ... ... 789,994 38,934 0 llf 1903 ... ... ... 814,842 43,421 1 Of 1904 ... ... ... 838,954 42,618 1 o| 1905 864,971 40,799 0 11J 1906 ... ... ... 889,968 39,547 0 10£ 1907 ... ... ... 913,873 38,305 0 10 " 1908 ... ... ... 937,587 33,998 0 8f 1909 ... 968,313 37,537 0 9£ 1910 ... ... ... 987,480 Not yet available. D. Robertson, Commissioner.

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APPENDIX. TABLES EMBODIED IN APPENDIX. Table 1. Pensions granted, deaths, and cancellations ; also annual liability and average pension. „ 2. Pensions in force and annual payments. ~ 3. Pensions at each rate. 4. Claims received, and how disposed of ; also pensions in force (in districts). „ 5. Nationalities of pensioners admitted during 1909—10. „ 0. Sex and conjugal condition of pensioners admitted during 1909-10. „ 7. Ages of European pensioners. „ 8. Percentage of pensions granted in each year now in force. „ 9. Amounts paid to homes and hospitals.

Table 1.—Number of Pensions granted since the Act came into Operation, with Number of Deaths and Cancellations, and Number in Force at End of each Year, together with Annual Liability and Average Pension.

Table 2.—Comparative Statement of Pensions in Force, and Payments made in each Financial Year since the Act came into Operation.

Year ending 31st March. ! Number of Pensions granted. Deaths. Cancellations. In Poroe at End of Year. Annual Liability. Average Pension. 1899 1900 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 1907 1908 1909 1910 7,487 4,699 2,227 1,694 1,391 1,063 1,210 2,075 2,031 1,740 2,113 M04 38 786 815 935 1,064 928 890 1,038 1,097 1,189 1,112 1,169 6 71 292 388 623 690 476 225 259 239 174 211 7,443 11,285 12,405 12,776 12,481 11,926 11,770 12,582 13,257 13,569 14,396 15,320 £ 127,319 193,718 211,965 217,192 211,594 200,915 199,081 313,018 326,084 333,340 353,343 374,699 £ s. d. 17 2 0 17 3 0 17 2 0 17 0 0 16 19 0 16 17 0 16 18 0 24 17 0 24 12 0 24 11 0 24 10 0 24 9 0 Totals 30,034 11,061 3,653 ,

Date. Number of Payments to Pensions in End of Foroe. Financial Year. Payments. Increase, i Decrease. Payments. Pensions. Increase. Decrease. At31stMarch, 1899 ... 1900 ... 1901 ... 1902 ... 1903 ... 1904 ... 1905 ... 1906 ... 1907 ... 1908 ... 1909 .. 1910 ... 7,443 11,285 12,405 12,776 12,481 11,926 11,770 12,582 13,257 13,569 14,396 15,320 £ 3,124 157,342 197,292 207,468 210,140 203,164 195,475 254,367 314,184 325,199 336,760 362,496 £ 154,218 39,950 10,176 2,672 58,892 59,817 11,015 11,561 25,736 6 6,976 7,689 3,842 1,120 371 812 675 312 827 924 i 295 555 156 Total... £2,767,011

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Table 3.—Number of Pensions at each Rate at End of Year 1909-10.

Table 4.—Claims received and how disposed of, and also Number of Pensions in Force in each District.

Number. Hate. Liability. Number. Rate. Bate. Liability Liability. 11,827 512 479 297 247 304 197 198 218 141 126 111 85 £ 26 25 24 23 22 21 20 19 18 17 16 15 14 £ 307,502 12,800 11,496 6,831 5,434 6,384 3,940 3,762 3,924 2,397 2,016 1,665 1,190 80 79 • 75 79 62 53 37 43 21 21 15 '.I I £ 13 12 11 10 9 •8 7 6 5 4 8 2 1 M 1,040 948 825 790 558 424 259 258 105 84 45 18 4 15,320 374,699 Average pens; ion, £24 9s.

District. Total ,-,■ • For Financial Yee Numberof £*& 8U* March, 1 Clal . m9 , Investigtreceived tion 0^ since Act 31stMar c) . Claims came into 1Qn o „ . , estaForce. 1909, "ceived. blishea For Financial Yeai 31st March, 1! n e o ndin 8 Claims D ,1U - awaiting Pensions Investiga- >n Force tion on on 3 l8t Claims 3i 8 tMar., March, rejected, jgio 1910. &o. ■ Auckland ... (Joromandel Dargaville ... Hamilton ... Helensville Kaitaia Mangoaui ... Maungaturoto Otahuhu ... Raglan Rawene Rotorua Russell Taupo Warkworth Whangarei Whangaroa Thames Opotiki Paeroa Tauranga ... Te Aroha ... Whakatane Gisborne ... Port Awanui Napier Dannevirke Waipawa ... Wairoa New Plymouth Stratford ... Wanganui... ... 4,125 58 388 27<i 357 24 5 11 332 12 23 26 707 2-1 73 (il 162 6 8 8 128 17 15 12 187 3 112 ... 7 5 808 12 8 3 236 12 4 5 ... 328 8 12 7 277 6 24 19 390 (i 22 12 120 7 it 4 243 2 5 2 518 7 42 31 139 3 12 8 735 29 36 27 109 5 7 i 4 296 31 34 23 351 19 16 12 113 8 7 4 120 I 7 3 6 379 17 28 25 ... 287 3 1 2 894 18 88 62 448 17 26 20 105 6 10 11 267 ... 5 3 667 12 : 43 29 130 6 13 11 590 11 47 26 188 37 1,810 15 120 7 2 117 1 5 21 353 6 ... I Closed. 20 80 3 27 2 36 L7 ... Closed. 9 2 27 1 12 85 5 6 77 1 15 : 131 8 ( .) 22 2 :; 75 7 11 167 2 5 47 8 30 274 8 38 6 1 36 i J (50 11 9 74 11 ... Closed. 3 1 33 6 14 103 2 ... 19 19 25 I 354 8 15 135 1 4 i 70 1 1 28 7 19 231 4 4 43 3 29 217 1 j Carried forward ... 14,9(50 396 1,021 755 396 1,021 755 304 358 4,953

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Table 4.—Claims received and how disposed of, and also Number of Pensions in Force in each District— continued.

Table s.—Original Nationalities of Pensioners admitted during the Year ended the 31st March, 1910. Number. Number. Number. British (English) ... 1,031 British (Jamaican) ... 1 Dutch ... ... 3 (Irish) ... 486 „ (Newfoundlander) 1 American ... ... 2 (Scotch) ... 424 i German ' ... ... 35 French ... ... 2 (New-Zealander) 66 Danish ... ... 16 Polish ... ... 2 (Australian) ... 58 Swedish ... ... 13 Finn ... ... ... 1 (Welsh) ... 18 Norwegian ... ... 12 Sicilian ... ... i (Canadian) ... 16 Italian ... ... 5 Maori... ... ... 90 „ (Charinel-Islanden 9 Prussian ... ... 5 (Cape-Colonist) 3 \ Swiss ... .... 5 Total ... 2,304 (Barbadoes colonist) 1 Austrian ... ... 3 These pensioners are now all British subjects, as required by law. Tabliß 6.—Sex and Conjugal Condition of Pensioners admitted during the Year ended the 31st March, 1910. Sex. Single. Married. Widowed. Totals. Males ... 826 699 315 1,340 Females ... 46 452 466 964 TW.nle 370 I I*l i7Oi n on i

District. Total _,, . Number of Cla ' m8 Claims awaiting received Inyestigasinoe Act Q1 tl ° n . on came into 31-t Mar., Force. 190J - For Financial Yeai 31st March, 19 • ending . HO Claims awaiting Investigarejected, mo so. Pensions in Force on 31st March, 1910. Claims C1 * ims received. i Brought forward Bltham Hawera Mavton Patea Wellington Carterton ... Feilding Masterton ... Otaki Pahiatua ... Pahnerston North ... Nelson Motueka ... Blenheim ... Havelock ... Christchurch Akaroa Amberley ... Ashburton... Culverden ... Kaiapoi Kaikoura ... Timaru Fairlie Geraldine ... Waimate ... Greymouth Reefton Hokitika ... Westport ... Oamaru Dunedin Balclutha ... Clyde Lawrence ... Milton Naseby Palmerston South ... Waikouaiti Invercargill Gore Queenstovvn Riverton ... Chatham Islands Port Chalmers ... 14,960 3 255 327 100 1,862 290 272 386 181 142 520 696 219 446 29 3,769 130 27 610 26 739 63 489 37 412 I 280 ... 1,070 392 1,321 680 705 ... 3,284 346 297 479 828 256 146 86 .. 1,529 88 285 400 16 338 396 12 ! (i 2 11 20 ! 8 13 3 4 1 12 5 5 55 3 ' 9 2 7 1 4 15 ! 10 12 I 10 ! 32 16 25 60 6 9 5 3 6 10 41 5 5 16 1,021 3 15 29 7 218 25 21 39 18 10 37 36 17 36 2 320 3 5 44 4 64 6 31 21 67 22 72 39 i 43 i 261 23 20 25 22 10 12 6 96 33 27 39 2 755 14 28 7 154 21 16 39 14 11 33 32 11 28 1 279 4 4 39 1 34 4 53 3 38 14 50 24 62 36 44 192 21 13 23 18 7 14 4 79 23 26 30 1 304 1 7 2 68 11 3 4 1 1 4 10 4 1 27 l 1 ' 2 3 e 7 2 * 12 4 19 10 9 69 1 1 1 3 1 7 1 37 9 2 5 358 2 6 5 2 7 13 10 9 6 2 1 6 7 9 "69 1 1 12 " 7 1 8 1 5 6 17 4 23 9 15 60 7 15 6 4 8 1 1 21 6 4 20 1 4,953 19 78 111 41 810 94 115 153 79 60 211 234 79 171 8 1,847 40 15 281 8 342 24 248 18 203 131 450 144 520 258 305 1,468 149 115 203 151 105 58 51 524 155 114 169 8 Closed. Totals ... 39,316 39,316 865 8rj5 2,892 2,892 2,304 2,304 677 776 15,320

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Table 7. —Ages of European Pensioners on 31st March, 1910. Number. Number. Number. At age 65 ... ... 635 At age 78 ... ... 671 At age 91 ... ... 13 66 ... ... 596 „ 79 ... ... 560 . 92 ... ... 17 67 ... ... 816 „ 80 ... ... 423 „ 93 ... ... 9 „ 68 904 „ 81 339 „ 94 11 „ 69 1,051 „ 82 228 „ 95 2 70 ... ...1,016 „ 83 ... ... 213 „ 96 ... ... 2 71 ... .. 947 ~ 84 ... ... 172 „ 97 ... ... 1 72 ... ... 909 „ 85 ... ... 127 . „ 98 ... ... 1 73 ... ... 878 „ 86 ... ... 101 „ 99 ... ... 1 74 ... ... 865 „ 87 ... ... 68 „ 109 ... ... 1 75 ... ... 970 „ 88 ... ... 48 76 ... ...1,028 „ 89 ... ... 52 Total ... 14,626 77 ... ... 904 „ 90 ... ... 47

Table B.—Number of Pensions granted in each Financial Year, together with the Numbers of such Pensions in Force on the 31st March, 1910. Number of Percentage of Pensions suoh Pensions Pensions in granted in still in Force Force each Year. on 31st March, to Pensions 1910. granted. Year ended 31st March, 1899 ... ... 7,487 1,912 26 1900 ... ... 4,699 1,355 29 1901 ... ... 2,227 829 37 1902 ... ... 1,694 709 42 1903 1,391 688 49 1904 1,063 624 59 1905 ... ... 1,210 760 63 1906 ... ... 2,075 1,396 67 1907 2,031 1,515 75 1908 1,740 1,417 81 1909 ... ... 2,113 1,885 89 1910 ... ... 2,304 2,230 97 Totals ... ... ... 30,034 15,320

Table 9. —Number of Old-age Pensioners maintained in Homes and Hospitals on the 31st March, 1910, together with the Amounts paid to such Institutions during the Year.

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Location. Institution. l'ayniente, Year 1909-10. thai iii§2 s<2.2-2| Amount handed to Pensioners after Deduction of Maintenance. Whangarei Auckland m ' ' Thames Hamilton Gisborne Napier New Plymouth Wanganui Wellington Palmerston North Maeterton Nelson Pioton Blenheim Ghristchurch .. £ s. d. Old Men's Homo .. .. 187 18 8 Costley Home .. .. 2,283 13 9 Ponsonby Home (Little Sisters).. 775 1 9 Veterans' Home .. .. 'J48 18 4 Old Men's Home .. .. 465 6 8 227 1 8 157 18 11 Refuge, Parke Island .. .. 786 9 10 Old Men's Home .. .. 390 13 5 Jubilee Home .. .. 19G 0 3 Ohiro Home .. .. .. 627 19 5 Home for Aged Needy .. .. 754 8 7 Home for Incurables' .. .. 246 17 9 No institution .. .. 110 12 4 Solway Home .. .. 60 13 4 Alexandra Homo .. .. 752 4 1 Hospital .. .. .. 80 5 3 Old Men's Home .. .. 140 16 8 Jubilee Home .. .. 907 9 10 Samaritan Home .. .. 179 5 0 Nazareth HouRe .. .. 488 2 7 Mount Magdala Home .. 23 16 8 Tuarangi Home .. .. 873 3 4 Old Men's Home .. .. 459 13 8 Hospital .. .. .. 568 16 3 165 14 1 ..- .. 205 9 1 691 18 4 617 11 6 204 14 4 398 18 11 Victoria Home .. .. 578 19 5 Benevolent Institution .. 2,071 0 2 Home for Aged Poor .. .. 727 10 0 (Bowmont Street Home i - OA o Q I Lome Farm No institution .. .. 60 13 4 9 98 29 36 18 8 6 27 14 8 25 29 10 2 3 29 3 6 36 7 23 1 30 16 24 5 10 32 24 9 19 24 72 39 I 16 1 12 2 4s. per month. 6a. 6d. 8s. 2s. 6d. per week. 5s. per month. 4e. Is. per week. 10s. 4d. per month. 10s. 5s. Is. 6d. per week. 7s. 7d. per month. 5s. Nil. 2s. per week. 6s. per month. Iβ. per week. Is. 4s. per month. 5s. „ Nil. Is. per week. Iβ. 6d. 2s. lls.4d.permontb. 5s. 10s. 7s. 6d. 13s. 4d. 13s. 4d. 8s. 8d. 13s. 4d. 13s. 4d. 4s. 6d. 8s. 6d. Nil. Ashburton Timaru Westport Charleston Reefton Greymouth Hokitika Ross Kumara Oam aru Dunedin Invercargill Riverton 19,212 G 10 Hospital Patients only .. 737 2 0 761 32 : £19,949 8 10 793